26B-7-204. Involuntary examination, treatment, isolation, and quarantine.
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The following individuals or groups of individuals are subject to examination, treatment, quarantine, or isolation under a department order of restriction:
Terms Used In Utah Code 26B-7-204- Communicable disease: means illness due to a specific infectious agent or its toxic products which arises through transmission of that agent or its products from a reservoir to a susceptible host, either directly, as from an infected individual or animal, or indirectly, through an intermediate plant or animal host, vector, or the inanimate environment. See Utah Code 26B-7-201
- Infectious agent: means an organism such as a virus, rickettsia, bacteria, fungus, protozoan, or helminth that is capable of producing infection or infectious disease. See Utah Code 26B-7-201
- Isolation: means the separation, for the period of communicability, of infected individuals or animals from others, in such places and under such conditions as to prevent the direct or indirect conveyance of the infectious agent from those infected to those who are susceptible or who may spread the agent to others. See Utah Code 26B-7-201
- Local health department: means the same as that term is defined in Section 26A-1-102. See Utah Code 26B-1-102
- Quarantine: means the restriction of the activities of well individuals or animals who have been exposed to a communicable disease during its period of communicability to prevent disease transmission. See Utah Code 26B-7-201
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an individual who is infected or suspected to be infected with a communicable disease that poses a threat to the public health and who does not take action as required by the department or the local health department to prevent spread of the disease; |
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an individual who is contaminated or suspected to be contaminated with an infectious agent that poses a threat to the public health and that could be spread to others if remedial action is not taken; |
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an individual who is in a condition or suspected condition which, if exposed to others, poses a threat to public health, or is in a condition which if treatment is not completed will pose a threat to public health; and |
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an individual who is contaminated or suspected to be contaminated with a chemical or biological agent that poses a threat to the public health and that could be spread to others if remedial action is not taken. |
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If an individual refuses to take action as required by the department or the local health department to prevent the spread of a communicable disease, infectious agent, or contamination, the department or the local health department may order involuntary examination, treatment, quarantine, or isolation of the individual and may petition the court to order involuntary examination, treatment, quarantine, or isolation in accordance with 3. |
Renumbered and Amended by Chapter 308, 2023 General Session
